IMPORTANT: This list is no longer open. The current list can be found here: IComLeavWe.Blog writing for a month is all good and fine; but what about the other side of blogging--the comment leaving? Comment leaving is an integral part of blogging. Without comments, blog posts are as flat as...Flat Stanley. Blogging is a conversation.
Therefore, in honour of my own blogoversary (since I am so modest. Wait, and because community and conversations are very important to me and a huge reason why I write my blog), I am conducting NaComLeavMo--National Comment Leaving Month (the national refers to wherever you are reading) from May 25th to June 25th. A full month of intense comment leaving.
Want to join along? The details are under the participant's list.
Participants for 2008's NaComLeavMo
- Stirrup Queens
- Fertilized
- Growing in Our Hearts
- Child Bearing Hips
- Mrs. Spit Spouts Off
- Maybe If You Just Relax
- The Daily Doings of Mr. Silly and Little Miss Trouble
- Wishing Waiting Hoping Praying
- Isn't It Pretty to Think So?
- In Search of Biscuit 2.0
- Ruminations
- Scrambled Eggz
- Unwellness
- Blurb This!
- Off My Mind but From My Heart
- My World
- PCOS Baby
- Weebles Wobblog
- His Eyes and My Nose
- MyBabyQuest
- Thinking Miracles
- The Life and Times of KimboSue
- Will They Have His Eyes?
- Nine Months
- Blood Signs
- My Perky Ovaries
- The I Word
- The Waiting Womb
- Reproductive Jeans
- Still Passing Open Windows
- A Little Sweetness
- Are You Listening?
- Coming2Terms
- Sweet Baby Dreams
- Infertility Bites
- Our Box of Rain
- Life After Infertility and Loss
- Happy Hopefuls
- Barren Albion
- Joyce's Blog
- Desperate to Multiply
- Alicia
- Nervous Breakdowns are Highly Underrated
- Growing Wathens
- Sweet Southern Knits
- Apron Strings for Emily
- The Road Less Travelled
- Frantically Simple
- Sunny in Seattle
- Sam's Stories
- Hecticmom - Completely Undone
- Bugged
- Confessions of a Paranoid Parent
- Becoming a Different Person
- Heeeeeeere Storkey, Storkey!
- Teacher, Mom, Mad Woman
- Confessions of a Raving Lunatic
- In Due Time
- Mommypause
- Perchance to Dream
- The Other Shoe
- Our Journey
- Doolittle
- Breathe Through It
- The Johnson Family Journey
- Terribly Unfashionable: Tales of a Geeky Librarian
- I Won't Fear Love
- Mommy Meryl
- Today's the Day!
- The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
- A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm
- Mom of Two Dancers
- The View from the Hill
- A Journey Through
- Back into the Fire
- Nuts in May
- The Surprise of Unfolding
- Twin Peas
- The Idle Mind of Beth
- This is Me
- Three P's in a Pod
- Communique
- Moxie Mama
- Sassymonkey
- Ramblings by Reba
- Help, I Have a Teenager!
- Good & Plenty
- Masha
- The Life and Times of Me!
- Jason and Samantha's Journey
- The Whole of Her Sermon
- Fat Fighter TV Blog
- Viva La Feminista
- The Limelight
- Hoping for Another Lovebug
- A Slice of Life
- Infertile Turtle
- Age 30 - A Year of Books
- A Very Open Book
- Letting it Out
- Imagine Alyzabeth An
- Our Journey to Sophie
- No Regrets
- There's Hope
- When Will Hope and Faith Pay Off
- Twice as Nice
- Couples Living with Infertility
- Operation Baby
- Diary of an Infertile Mad Woman
- Bits and Pieces
- It's Stork Season...And I've Bagged My Limit
- Locker Room Towel Fights
- After 10 Years...Finally...IVF
- Learning to Breathe
- From Here to Maternity--Yael's Journey
- Solo Trekking Through Recurrent Miscarriage
- Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?
- One Day Two Day
- The Idaho Smiths
- What Was I Thinking?
- Your Kiss is On My List...
- Seeryus Mama
- Rational Irrationalities
- Adventures of a Bad Ass
- Dirt and Rocks
- A Lady Scientist
- Psych Post Doc
- Postcards from the Edge
- Living with the Cards I was Dealt
- Monogrammed Mom
- ...And the Rest is History
- Gotcha Baby
- Kore Chronicles
- We're Barren, How 'bout You?
- Scientist Mother
- In 2 Me See
- Small Town Girl in a Big City
- A Woman and Her Blog
- Kicking You From the Inside
- Raspberry Chip
- Acqua Cheta Rovina I Ponti
- Mr. Buttertoes
- The Hairy Farmer Family
- Antigone Lost
- Ramblings and Everyday Amusements
- Mommy Needs Therapy
- Hearts Wide Open
- Candid Engineer in Academia
- Stop the Train, I Wanna Get Off
- High Land, Hard Rain
- Production, Not Reproduction
- Grad Ovaries
- A Soldier's Girl
- Lupus Pie
- There's Weenie Juice on my Cookie
- Mommy Wants Vodka
- Sam's Feet
The list is now closed--12:01 a.m. Sunday, May 25th. Let the commenting commence!
This is how it works:
(1) leave a comment below saying you would like to participate in NaComLeavMo. Leave your blog name and url. I will add you soon after to the list of participants above. Everyone is invited to join NaComLeavMo (you do not have to ask because the answer is yes. It is always yes. It is open to everyone in this whole huge blogosphere). My goal is actually to get non-IF/adoption/loss blogs participating too and get conversations going between different corners of the blogosphere. Therefore, if you have non-IF blogging friends or straddle two communities, encourage them to join along too. But be forewarned, there will be blogs on the list that are about knitting or politics or cooking, but there will probably be blogs with babies or children as well.
If you do not have a blog, you can technically still participate in NaComLeavMo. When you leave your comment, just state that you don't have a blog but will be participating. Um...though this may be a good week to start that blog you've always been meaning to start.
(2) mark somewhere on your calendar that you are going to leave 5 comments a day and return one comment a day between May 25 and June 25. In other words, you will do your normal blog reading, but you will make sure that you leave at least 5 comments a day and regardless of how many comments you usually receive, you will return at least 1 comment by going to a commentor's blog and leaving a comment there. If you do not have any comments that day (perhaps you didn't write a new post or your blog falls into a strange, other-worldly commentless abyss), simply jump to the participant's list below and pick a new blog and leave a comment.
New people who have never commented on your blog before take precedence over usual commentors. All commenting is done on the honour system--if you tell me you left the requisite amount of comments each day, I'm going to believe you. Try to spread your comments around--it's okay to comment on the same person's blog each day, but it's better to hit new ones continuously. Please try to visit once all of the blogs listed on the participant's list at some point during the course of the month. Even if you don't leave a comment.
(3) those who wish to step up the commenting and enter the wall of honour, leave a comment on every NaComLeavMo participating blog at least once a week (in other words, if there are 100 blogs on the participant's list below, you would click down the list once a week and leave a comment on each one). These bloggers are called Iron Commentors and they will be placed on the wall of honour at the end of NaComLeavMo. You must do this once a week (4 times during the month) in order to get on the wall of honour, though even if you only do it once, let me know.
(4) take the code listed here back to your blog and place it somewhere on the sidebar or in an easily accessible post. Encourage your readers to participate in NaComLeavMo. The more, the merrier. Please leave this code up throughout NaComLeavMo because it gives people easy access to the participant's list.
(5) check in with me on June 20th (put that on a calendar too, though there will be a reminder that day in the Roundup) to let me know if you're on track for completing NaComLeavMo. When you email me at the towncriers@gmail.com, I will send you the code for the completed NaComLeavMo icon or the Iron Commentor icon. If you don't check in, I won't know if you completed NaComLeavMo and I won't move you to the final list of participants. So...check in that weekend.
(6) if you miss a day, you can double up your comment leaving (10 comments and 2 returns) the next day. If you miss three days, triple your comment leaving when you return, so on and so on.
(7) the participant's list closes on May 24th at midnight EST. You can still do NaComLeavMo, but you can't add your blog to the list. Therefore, get the word out now to your readers and let's see how many people we can get participating.
So add yourself by leaving a comment below...
237 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 237 of 237Count me in.
sglover212.blogspot.com
I'm always last!! :-(
I'm in.
What a great idea! Count me in!
sparklykatt.blogspot.com
Me too please. :o)
http://candidengineer.blogspot.com
What a brilliant plan. I am a timid commenter. This gives me a great excuse to push through and just do it.
Blog Name: Stop the train, I want to get off....
Blog URL: http://momofonefornow.blogspot.com/
Am I too late? I am hoping that this will drive me to have more than 2 posts on my blog!
highlandhardrain.blogspot.com
Hi - I'm already on the list, but thought that you guys might like to know that someone else recently did a bloggy challenge that meant visiting lots of blogs and she has created a listed of those blogs - so if you are looking for other blogs to visit to ring the changes a bit....go here!
http://randomdailyramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-rolling-with-my-homies.html
Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me!!
Oh...ok...you said I didn't have to ask.
Add me please...
Tina
I'm in (just under the wire!)
I'm in...this sounds like a fun challenge! :)
Please add me to the list. (I got my blog up and running just in the nick of time!)
Lupus Pie
http://lupuspie.blogspot.com
Please count me in!
"There's Weenie Juice on My Cookie"
http://meshkhent.blogspot.com/
Color me in. I'm here, I'm here!
I would like to join... I need to comment more and lurk less.
http://samsfeet.blogspot.com/
The list is now closed. Look for it to open again next year around the first of May.
Now let the commenting begin!
I just tried to view http://thisismycalmit.livejournal.com and there was no posts there to comment on.
So I'm too late for the 'official' list, but I'm still going to up my reading and commenting for the month! Woo-hoo!! What a great idea :)
Even thought this is late I would still like to play. Even if you can't add my blog to the list I'm going to try to participate. Great idea!!!
I know it says that you're not adding anyone else, but if that changes, I'd like to participate. :)
http://wendy-steve-andg3.blogspot.com/
I am late too, what I great idea!! Would love to join but if not, I understand.
Count me in!! :)
i'm late! i'm late! i for some reason thought this was going to be DONE on may 25th... dangit.
but i am going to schedule myself to make up the first few days in these next 4... please add me :)
gypsygrrl
http://kissesandcompliments.com
QUESTION:
How do we leave comments on "live journals" without creating an account?
Wow, guess I'm a week late. I'll be back next year, but for now I'll be lurking :)
I found this through
http://dirtandrocks.blogspot.com/2008/06/conversational-styles-internet-version.html
A week late, but taking up the challenge nonetheless!
Add me!
www.preheatedoven.blogspot.com
Just found this on another blog today. Hope you carry it on next year, next month?
Yes, yes, yes! I am brand new to being a blogger, but have been an anonomous commenter for months. I love this community and want to comment more. So FUN!
oops forgot the blog title
www.goodforthebaby.blogspot.com
Ooo I do love comments. Sign me up!
I'd like to join too.
http://rantingsofaninfertilewife.com
What a fabulous idea... shame I am just now finding it! lol
Just wanted to let you know I've successfully completed the challenge. Thanks again for hosting such a great event! :)
Wow, I wish I had known about this. I love leaving comments!
-dsb-
Yeah! I made it through the entire month of NaComLeavMo - whoopee!!!
Love, love, love the Flat Stanley reference!! We had a visit from Flat Stanley a few months ago.
Check out this...
http://simpsonfamily05.blogspot.com/2008/05/visit-from-flat-stanley.html
Smiles!
What do you mean?
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